Animal-human interactions have been found to have positive influences on children across the world. In particular, research supports the benefits of animal-assisted activities in addressing students' ...

Egyptian fruit bats and mice, respectively, can 'sync' brainwaves in social situations. The synchronization of neural activity in the brains of human conversation partners has been shown previously, ...

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Human activity such as farming and tourism forces animals to travel 70 per cent further to find food, shelter or a mate, the first study of its kind to consider the impact on global wildlife stocks ...

Animals that live near human activity are becoming nocturnal just to avoid us, and the implications for ecosystems around the world could be huge. A team of researchers conducted a meta-analysis which ...

The Kratt Brothers often point out that similar-looking animals can have big differences. When identified correctly, these differences can give clues about how animals use their creature powers! In ...

Scientists have analysed for the first time the amount by which human activity forces animals to alter their movements. What's surprising is that episodic activity - like hunting, oil pipeline ...